Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe has admitted that there are some “extreme scenarios” in which the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) could recommend demands that would make it difficult to complete the Sainsbury’s-Asda merger.

Lidl is to open five new London stores and and build its largest UK warehouse to date in a move that the supermarket says underlines the "scale" of its expansion plans in Britain's capital...read more...

Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, has “some explaining to do” about why the company did not reveal its inspectors had unearthed “major” process issues at a second 2 Sisters Food Group factory, an influential MP has said...read more...

Tesco’s £3.7bn takeover of wholesaler Booker has been fully cleared by the UK’s competition watchdog despite widespread concern that the deal will hand the supermarket an even greater grip on the market...read more...

Huge chains such as Britain’s Tesco and France’s Carrefour could face the full wrath of the European Union over claims farmers have almost no bargaining powers against the supermarket giants...read more...

The bosses of seven of the UK’s largest wholesalers have come out fighting against Tesco’s mooted £3.7bn takeover of Booker and called on the competition watchdog to block the deal outright...read more...

The Independent, 22nd August 2017
The war of the supermarkets is heating up with new data showing that German discounters Aldi and Lidl are rapidly wrestling market share from Britain’s traditional retailers...read more...

A few months ago Tesco boss Dave Lewis confidently dismissed questions about whether his £3.7bn takeover for wholesaler Booker might come under further scrutiny because it would make some of its weak rivals weaker...read more...

Tesco’s proposed £3.7bn deal to buy the cash-and-carry group Booker has been referred for an in-depth investigation after the competition watchdog said it could result in higher prices for shoppers in about 350 areas across the UK...read more...

Two of Britain’s biggest supermarkets could control almost a quarter of our 41,000 convenience stores if their plans go ahead. The latest drive into the market was spearheaded by Tesco in January with a £3.7 billion deal for wholesaler Booker. It then emerged last weekend that Sainsbury’s was closing in on convenience store group Nisa, with a deal worth £130 million...read more...

It used to be said that Tesco was so popular that one in every eight pounds spent in the UK retail sector ended up in the supermarket’s jingling tills. Some £214m of that hard-earned money could soon be weighing down the pockets of the Serious Fraud Office, and of investors affected by its 2014 accounting scandal, in the form of fines and compensation, after a settlement agreement last month...read more...

Peterborough is due to become the unlikely battleground for Tesco’s multi-billion pound takeover of Booker as the competition watchdog decides whether the deal will hand the pair too much power over the grocery industry...read more...

Tesco was always going to face a bit of a food fight to pull off its surprise £3.7bn tie-up with wholesale giant Booker, but at this rate the deal risks turning into a bit of a dog’s dinner...read more...

Booker bosses will launch a charm offensive this week in an attempt to convince Britain’s shopkeepers of the merits of its shock £3.7bn Tesco merger, amid rising concerns that the deal will strangle competition in the convenience store market...read more...

I used to know 98% of my customers by name but now it’s more like 40 to 50%, as there’s always new people coming in and shoppers are not so loyal these days,” says Vijay Patel, who has been manning the checkout in his shop on the edge of a London council estate since the early 80s...read more...

Tesco has rejected claims made by an independent TD in the Dáil that it intends to get rid of 1,200 jobs in Ireland. A spokeswoman for the supermarket giant said on Friday there would be “no job losses”, but said there was an option to take voluntary redundancy...read more...

Tesco’s One Stop convenience chain is expected to be a key area of scrutiny for competition regulators poring over the details of the merger between Booker and Britain’s biggest retailer...read more...

Tesco has kicked off radical plans to build hundreds of homes on some of its largest supermarket sites. Britain’s biggest retailer is understood to be holding a beauty parade of property developers who are vying to be involved in the scheme, which could help relieve the country’s housing shortage...read more...

As France launches an investigation into Carrefour’s unfair business practices, a new Brussels report has called for the relationship between farmers and supermarkets to be rebalanced. EurActiv France reports...read more...

The gloves are off in the supermarket planning wars involving the UK’s Tesco and German discounter Lidl. This follows Lidl accusing Tesco of engaging “in a potentially cynical attempt” of using the planning process to frustrate its expansion plans. Over the past 12 months, Tesco has opposed at least six new Lidl retail outlets at An Bord Pleanála, and has lost out in every decision to date...read more...

The modest corner shop has become the new battleground for the major supermarkets as a new space race erupts in the convenience store market. Tesco and Sainsbury’s are the only members of the “Big Four” to have submitted planning permissions for new shops this year, but almost all the applications are for convenience stores, fresh figures exclusively compiled for The Sunday Telegraph show...read more...

Tesco Ireland Ltd has lodged two planning appeals to An Bord Pleanála in recent days against decisions by local authorities giving Aldi the go-ahead for a new store at Leixlip, Co Kildare, and Lidl for a new store in Drogheda, Co Louth...read more..

The grocery market watchdog has ordered Tesco to make “significant changes” in the way it deals with suppliers after finding the supermarket had deliberately delayed payments to boost its profits...read more...

Sainsbury's has decided to step up its battle against discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl. The UK supermarket is to open 10 new Netto stores in the North of England. It confirmed that the planning applications required for the launch has already been filed...read more...

An investigation into Tesco's relationships with suppliers is now due to be published towards the end of January, almost a year after the regulator said it had "reasonable suspicion" that the supermarket giant had breached the Groceries Supply Code of Practice...read more...

At of the close of trading on Wednesday night, shares in Tesco stood at 153p each, valuing the retailer at £12.6bn. That marks a new low for this year, and indeed the lowest the shares have closed since October 1997....read more...

Tesco has abandoned the sale of turtles for the dinner table at its stores in China where they were packed alive into plastic bags or butchered in front of customers. The company has bowed to pressure from animal welfare campaigners who accused the retailer of putting profit before animal welfare...read more...

Tesco has scrapped 24-hour opening at two large stores, and other shops with low numbers of nightime shoppers may soon follow suit in an attempt to cut costs. As part of efforts by the chief executive, Dave Lewis, to restore the group’s fortunes, Tesco has decided to shut one Extra outlet and one superstore at night because not enough customers were using them. The supermarkets will now close at midnight and reopen at 6am...read more...

Beleaguered supermarket chain Tesco is selling its South Korean stores for £4bn in a bid to improve its core business in Britain which has been hit by falling sales, a £263m accounting scandal and a £6.4bn loss...read more...

Former Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke is set to be questioned by the Serious Fraud Office as it nears the conclusion of an investigation into a multi-million-pound accounting scandal at the retailer...read more...

Suppliers to Tesco (TSCO.L) can expect a better deal from Britain's biggest supermarket chain as it tries to sustain a tentative revival -- providing their wares survive a cull that is removing thousands of products from shelves...read more..

When Dave Lewis unveiled a comprehensive list of measures to rebuild Tesco in January, it seemed he could do no wrong. The new Tesco boss said he would close 43 unprofitable stores, shut the company’s headquarters in Cheshunt, scrap the defined benefit pension scheme and cut £250m of costs, moves which put thousands of jobs at risk. Shares in Britain’s biggest retailer rocketed by 15pc, the most in a single day for 27 years. “Drastic Dave” had lived up to his name...read more...

Private equity firms KKR & Co, Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners are among the firms Tesco has approached, according to Reuters. The sale is seen as a way of funding Tesco's turnaround plan after last year's accounting scandal...read more...

Tesco has admitted that it is likely to have breached the grocery industry’s code of practice in its dealings with suppliers, leaving Britain’s biggest retailer at serious risk of a reprimand from the watchdog...read more...

The relationship between retailers and their suppliers is to be scrutinised in the wake of the Tesco accounting scandal – in which the group overstated last year’s expected first-half profits by about £250m...read more...

Steve is angry. We’ll call him Steve, though that is not his real name. He is a successful farmer, growing thousands of tonnes of produce which he sells to the leading supermarkets. You’ve probably bought some of his produce . But he has had enough...read more...

It is the sixth biggest corporate loss in British history and the largest ever in British retailing, just the latest in a lengthening list of disasters. Tesco’s £6.4bn fall from grace is in the same league as BP’s multibillion-dollar compensation for the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico (though not quite up there with RBS’s bankruptcy in 2008)...read more...

Tesco has begun selling off land once earmarked for new supermarkets, which could raise hundreds of millions of pounds for the embattled grocer and provide sites for thousands of new homes...read more...

Tesco is radically restructuring the way it works with suppliers, cutting the number of ways in which it charges them from 24 to just three. The plan was outlined by Dave Lewis, the chief executive, as the groceries watchdog investigates Tesco over its dealings with manufacturers and distributors in the wake of a £263m accounting scandal linked to misstatement of income from such suppliers...read more...

Alid is planning to open more new shops in the UK this year than Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons combined according to comprehensive new supermarket research that lays bare the dramatic changes in the industry...read more...

Tesco is preparing to shed up to 9,000 jobs in a turnaround plan that would remove a layer of management in larger supermarkets in addition to slimming its head office and closing outlets...read more...

The Groceries Code Adjudicator has called on Tesco suppliers to come forward with evidence regarding the supermarket giant’s practices. But will they dare become whistleblowers? A survey suggests very few will...read more...

Tesco’s profits crisis means that plans for 49 shiny new stores have been ditched. Where does that leave places such as Kirkby, Bridgwater and Wolverhampton, where regeneration schemes linked to the supermarket chain now lie in ruins?...read more...

Terry Leahy stepped down as chief executive of Tesco three years ago, after a glorious 14-year reign in which profits soared from £750 million to £3.2 billion and its stock market value more than tripled from £10 billion to £35 billion...read more...

The new chief executive of Tesco has made a decisive break with the troubled supermarket’s past, axing the retailer’s emblematic Cheshunt head office in Hertfordshire and raising the spectre of thousands of job cuts as part of a shakeup that will also see the closure or abandonment of nearly 100 stores...read more...

With Britain’s economy in recovery, the FTSE 100 at its strongest since the financial crisis and England still in possession of the Ashes, City workers had every reason to enjoy the 2013 festive season...read more...

Tesco's rivals would be forgiven for having enjoyed a moment of schadenfreude when the group was forced to admit a huge £260million error in its profits. But it looks like that blow to Tesco could now end up spreading to the supermarket sector as a whole...read more...

Ten years ago, I published my anti-supermarket book, Shopped, to a warm reception. In print, on air, at live events, audiences showed a surprising willingness to accept the charge sheet drawn up against our big chains. Supermarkets had closed down small shops, operated a feudal system with their suppliers, bullied their way into communities, encouraged consumption of rubbish food, generated unprecedented levels of food and packaging waste and clocked up environmentally ruinous food miles; this much was relatively uncontroversial. The stumbling block came when I said that I successfully organised my own food shopping so that I rarely used them...read more...

Initial warnings from the insider who blew the whistle on a 250 million pounds accounting scandal at Britain's biggest retailer Tesco (TSCO.L) were ignored, the Sunday Times reported, citing a senior source at the supermarket...read more...

For almost three decades it looked as if supermarket expansion plans had no end. Megastores and out of town retail spaces were blistering on to the landscape across the country as the big five supermarkets competed to lure customers for their 'big weekly shop'...read more...

Among the ‘Big Four’ supermarket chains, Morrison's and Tesco have continued to see their market share decline in the face of stiff competition from the discounters, but Sainsbury's and Asda saw an improvement according to the latest monthly figures...read more...

A multi-channel initiative for suppliers introduced by supermarket chain Morrisons has breached the Groceries Supply Code of Practice, according to the government body the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA)...read more...

Philip Clarke is under pressure to act. Besieged at home and abroad — thanks to struggling UK sales and troubled overseas ambitions — the Tesco chief executive must find a way to ensure the nation’s largest supermarket chain once again finds favour with the City’s investor community...read more...

Tesco has finalised a deal with the state-run China Resources Enterprise (CRE) to create the largest food retailer in China. The joint venture will combine Tesco's 131 outlets in the country with CRE's almost 3,000 stores, called Vanguard...read more...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has cleared British retail major Tesco's purchase of a 50 per cent stake in Tata Group firm Trent Hypermarket, the first FDI transaction in multi-brand retail since the sector was opened up in 2012...read more...

Mumbai, March 21: Tesco, the £72-billion British retailer, today announced that it had picked up a 50 per cent stake in Tatas-owned Trent Hypermarket Ltd (THL), becoming the first global supermarket chain to enter India’s multi-brand retail segment...read more...

Wm Morrison is to sell off £500m of its £9bn property estate in an attempt to appease investors as the chief executive, Dalton Philips, prepares to come out fighting in the face of declining sales....read more...

Communities minister Eric Pickles is facing a legal challenge over his decision to allow Tesco to build a huge superstore in 'Portas Pilot' Margate...read more...

How supermarkets get your data - and what they do with it
The Guardian, 8th June 2013

We all know supermarkets use information about our shopping habits to target us with personalised vouchers and offers – but how would you feel about sitting down to watch a movie and being confronted with adverts based on what was in your shopping trolley a few hours earlier?...read more...

Morrisons is considering whether to lodge an official complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency because it claims that the Tesco Price Promise “doesn’t correctly compare” the price of products at the two retailers...read more..

Morrisons buys Blockbuster storesThe Sunday Times, 17th February 2013

The supermarket chain has been taking advantage of high street closures to bulk up its convenience store offering...read more...

Tesco's plans for old boozers is enough to drive MPs to drinkThe Times, 16th February 2013

A Cabinet minister and the former Conservative Defence Secretary are pressing the Government to protect small shopkeepers against big supermarket chains...read more...

Tesco calls on Cameron to aid Indian growthDaily Telegraph, 16th February 2013

Tesco is poised to make a decision on the size of a potential multi-billion pound investment in India following representations by David Cameron as part of a UK trade mission...read more...

Morrisons has bought seven of the former Jessops stores as it looks to expand its convenience chain...read more...

Morrisons stuns suppliers with new round of price negotiationsMail On Sunday, 27th January 2013

Morrisons has begun a new round of price negotiations with suppliers just six months after it called them in to ask for discounts...read more...

Walmart, Tesco may not rush in with storesTimes of India, 25th January 2013

Foreign retailers Walmart and Tesco on Thursday indicated that they will not rush into opening stores in India despite the government aggressively courting them to set up multi-brand outlets. ..read more...

Morrisons is thought to be interested in 20 stores as HMV looks to sell off up to half its 230 sites. Supermarkets are looking at snapping up HMV outlets to boost their convenience store chains...read more...

Christine Tacon appointed as first Groceries Code AdjudicatorFarmers Guardian, 21st January 2013

Christine Tacon, who ran the Co-operative Group’s farming business for 11 years, has been appointed as the first Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA)...read more...